Gun Control?

Question

do u think there should be gun control??

explain please

I am doing this for debate research

Answer 1

We don't need better gun control as much as we need better criminal control. Even if you take all the guns away from the law abiding people. (And in the process you might as well burn the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and spit on all that our forefathers fought and died for.) You will have accomplished very little if anything. Criminals will always have guns if they want to have them. Studies have shown that where responsible citizens are allowed to conceal and carry there is less crime. We need to be following the examples of the Israelis that have have armed volunteers in the classroom. How far would have the mess in Columbine or in Virgina have gotten if one responsible person had been armed and able to defend themselves and those around them?

Answer 2

If you don't have gun control, the factories will keep making more guns. If you make enough of anything and sell it, the price drops to the point where you can't make a profit on it any more. So you have to make a more powerful gun. And it never ends. So, pretty soon, we will come to a point where you can buy a fully loaded semi-automatic rifle from a pawnshop for $5. Pawnshops don't have to check the buyer's criminal background or even age. The kid who shot up VA Tech was able to buy everything he needed (2 different kinds of guns and 2 different types of ammunition) off the Net for under $600. That was all it cost to kill 32 people and wound another 16. And that was after he had been declared mentally unstable by a judge IN VIRGINIA, just a few months earlier.

Answer 3

Gun Control~No I don't think so, the Federal Government and at a local level here in Connecticut they have done enough damage by trying to take the guns from legal, law abiding citizens.
NO AMOUNT OF GUN CONTROL is going to keep a gun from a street thug or anyone else who intends to use it for illegal purposes. Look at the crime statistics. Crimes are not committed with guns (for the most part) that were legally purchased. If they were committed with legally purchased guns then it is usually a crime of passion which could not have been prevented. Why, because the bleeding heart liberals who believe in therapy etc. allow people to live in dangerous homes and then wonder why THIS happened. They blame it on the GUN. NO the GUN did not KILL the IDIOT or CRIMINAL holding the gun killed.
Why should we suffer and have ineffective laws put in place that will only hamper those who enjoy hunting, sport shooting and GOD FORBID the right to protect ourselves from all those who do obtain guns through the underground
subsystem. Harsher penalties for them and the perpetrators that is what is required.
No, they would rather suffer the honest man/woman then deal with the illegal idiots.
Just my opinion. Support the NRA.

Answer 4

Well That can never happen!Guns don't kill people PEOPLE kill people.The government just blames it on guns.I have a 8 year old daughter and my father is living in the same household and he could be considered mentally ill.And we have recently agreed to let my 6 year old nephew stay her for a while to.I have guns in my house,I keep them loaded at all times.They are there for protection.
How could you take guns away from criminals?You can't!!If you could you could take their drugs away.There can never be any kind of gun control it should be harder to buy a gun.But I can walk into wal-mart tell them which shotgun I want they make a phone call and I go home with my gun.
Now I'm the kind of man that wouldn't harm a mouse but if I catch someone breaking in my house,I got a 12 Gage shotgun waiting on the other side!

Answer 5

Absolutely. As long as you define gun control as using both hands to properly aim the weapon.

Otherwise, NO. If a person wants a gun, then a law is not going to prevent them from getting one. They will buy one illegaly and use it however they want. Law abiding citizens should always have the right to arm themselves and take action to provide for their personal safety. The police are not, will not, and cannot be in position to stop every violent crime.

Want some nice sound bites for the debate?

My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.
Do not give up your guns. You will need them to fight off the government.
Gun's don't kill people. People kill people with whatever weapon they can find.

Answer 6

guns should be available as a basic right to all rational and sane minded people, as it is stated in the Constitution. It is stated in the constitution so as the people should always hold power over their government. If all gun ownership is illegal then who will police the police? Look I hate idea of owning a gun and violence altogether though i will protect the liberties of those who want to own guns.The right to bear arms is written so as if the government for any reason took too much power the people will have the means necessary to take that power back . I leave you with this question "When Hitler took power over Germany, do you think passive Resistance would have stopped him?"

(Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWeTEXSV7ts ad the other parts to it)

Answer 7

There already are many laws concerning gun control. If you are specifically talking about eliminating private gun ownership, I don't think it's practical, or possible, in the U.S. There are over 250,000,000 guns in private ownership in the U.S. now (don't know how valid that number is or what talk show I heard it on). Considering the difficulty of controlling illegal substances now, making guns illegal would be almost impossible here. In fact, it's almost impossible anywhere. I will admit that many deaths would be prevented if the shooter didn't have access to a gun. To me the question isn't "Why would someone shoot someone?" but is more importantly, "Why do most of us never choose to shoot someone even in a moment of anger or frustration?" Finding the answer to that question would be more of a step toward stopping the killing than finding out why someone would kill.

Answer 8

Yes , not all people should own guns , and there should be a national standard of licencing and background checks done. I support responsible use and ownership of firearms for hunting , sport shooting , and home protection.
Proper gun safes should be mandatory for all homes with guns to protect against theft and from children or mentally ill family members or friends getting easy access to them.

Answer 9

I think if the government made it too difficult, or impossible for law-abiding people to get/have guns, then the only people who will have them are the "bad-guys" who have them illegally. Then who will protect those innocent unarmed people? Do you honestly believe gang members, and strung out junkies can be TALKED out of shooting people?
The honest people who have guns for protection or hunting are not the people you need to worry about shooting random people. The vast majority of shootings are committed by people who have them illegally. Gun control will not get the guns out of their hands. But taking them out of the "good-guys" hands may increase the number of shootings. If the "bad-guys" know no one else has the guns, they will be even more vicious.

Answer 10

There are already more laws on the books than ever in history. Murderers tend not to pay much attention to them so no, more laws won't help. If everyone was armed, there would be no more mass murders.

More people get killed by cars, swimming pools, and doctors, then by guns.